The Fed’s purpose, when it comes down to it, is to buy bonds. Under their various “Quantitative Easing” (QE) programs, they sure have bought a lot of bonds. This pushes up the price of the bonds. Since the yield is basically the inverse of the bond price, this means the rate of interest falls.

This month, on rumors that QE will be tapered off and despite continued Fed bond buying, the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond has spiked from 1.63% to 2.12%.

A department spokesman later termed the demand for cash a “mistake” and provided the Associated Press with the email addresses for all Labor appointees confirmed by the Senate. But it would appear demanding such and exorbitant sum to drum up a few email addresses may amount to an effort to create a barrier to the release of information.

The episode suggests that the failure to appreciate the role of the press extends well beyond the White House, which bullies reporters to suppress the news, and the Justice Department, which makes them subject to criminal inquiry for collecting information. It is one of the cardinal rules of journalism that you don’t pay for information, particularly not a sum like $1 million.

SKULL AND BONES DEPARTMENT OF STATE DECLARES HUSSEIN OF BABYLON (AKA GAY PRIDE SODOMITE MARRIAGE POTUS ABORTING THE MERCY OF OUR FATHER RISEN IN CHRIST FROM THE WOMB WHILE CLAIMING TO BE A CHRISTIAN) GLOBAL PLAN THAT HOLDS THE UNITED STATES LEGISLATIVE BRANCH AND WE THE PEOPLE IN CONTEMPT AND PROCLAIMED INTENT TO COMIT TREASON!!! …aaahgain. THIS IS A WILLFUL ACT DIRECTED AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION>>>

What nerve these evil bastards have even saying ”the United States will sign” when the United States Senate has not given permission to the Executive Branch to sign a foreign treaty that assumes greater power. The fact that the American people remain silent after so many crimes against them have been and continue to be committed against them tells everyone that America is a soulless Antichrist delusional and deceived dead body that is powerless and shall not rise above this corrupt and evil government that has cast them down on their behalf. This is old news to anyone watching, of course.

Senator Dianne Feinstein has long been accused of corruption and unethical behavior in Congress. From going after the Second Amendment to making tens of millions of dollars through her husband’s companies, Feinstein seems to take unbridled glee in being one of the most corrupt members of Congress today.

Did you know that Barack Obama has been secretly negotiating the most important trade agreement since the formation of the World Trade Organization? Did you know that this agreement will impose very strict Internet copyright rules, ban all “Buy American” laws, give Wall Street banks much more freedom to trade risky derivatives and force even more domestic manufacturing offshore? If you have not heard about this treaty, don’t feel bad. Obama has refused to even give Congress a copy of the draft agreement and he has banned members of Congress from attending the negotiations. The plan is to keep this treaty secret until the very last minute and then to railroad it through Congress and have it signed into law by October.

The fact that this data was omitted from the report is “troubling” to House Oversight Committee head Darrell Issa. In its annual audit, the agency disclosed that under current conditions, total losses would exceed its reserves by $13.5 billion over 30 years (with a $943 million loss this year alone). The projected shortfall under a ‘protracted economic slump’ is $64.5 billion but the ‘tail risk’ event, that was originally included in earlier drafts, based on the Fed’s stress test, is $115 billion. Hardly the upside-encouraging potential that private-finance will be looking for in funding FEDMAGIC.

“She said further terror attacks on the UK were inevitable unless the country became a ‘police state,’” the report continued. That means being able to protect themselves as government policies devolve their culture into chaos will not be an option for ordinary people, as a “monopoly of violence” remains the exclusive province of the state.

People there may come to regret that too late. And people here need to mind what is unfolding there as a foreshadowing of where those who would disarm us are trying to lead us.

The possibility of a threat is enough for the Air Force to activate sirens. Some three years ago, then-IDF Intelligence chief Amod Yadlin, an Air Force man, announced that Syria’s purchase of anti-aircraft equipment will put the Air Force at the same disadvantage it faced during the Yom Kippur War. However, this can also occur when American weapons are transferred to a friendly Arab country.

The West suspects Iran is seeking the capability to make nuclear weapons. Iran denies this.

Western diplomats made clear they would have preferred the text to be more strongly worded but that this was not possible if they wanted Moscow and Beijing – which have criticized unilateral Western sanctions against Tehran – on board.

This is the first Hindenburg Omen since November 12, 2012, and only the fifth since 2008, the 2008 signal which of course led to the massive stock market crash in the autumn 2008, and the seventh since the Bear Market started in 2007 (we got one in 2007, one in 2008, two in 2010, two in 2012, and now one in 2013).

When Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon informed a Knesset panel Monday, June 3, that Syrian rebels still occupied four Damascus districts, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources reported that the battle for the Syrian capital was all but over. Barring small pockets of resistance, Bashar Assad’s army had virtually regained control of the city in an epic victory.

Sadly this is playing out very similarly to the Great Depression period as tariffs and protectionism replaced domestic focused fiscal and monetary policy and escalated problems rapidly. China rejects the EU’s price-dumping allegations, but the problem is not new for Beijing. The U.S. last year imposed punitive tariffs on solar panel imports after finding that China’s government was subsidizing companies that were flooding the U.S. market.

Using brain scans, scientists can detect when a person is lying with 70 to 90 percent accuracy, said panelist Anthony Wagner, a psychologist and neuroscientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.

…courtroom?, Uh, how about in the White House Press Room, Capitol etc… Time for a hand held wireless drone phone app to go with your Anti-Mason Party Pirate Underground New World Order DNA frequency changer penalty app RFID matcher catcher. On sale now at the Great Wal Mart of China for 666 debt note zeros and ones and at the expense of eternal salvation.